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How to avoid denied insurance claims?

Medical billing is a frustrating process for counsellors who are often juggling too many business tasks, as well as trying to provide excellent clinical care. In fact, many counselling practices collect less than 85% of the monies that they’re rightly owed from insurance companies. However, with good planning, and a…
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How Overcoding and Undercoding can harm a Medical Practice?

Overcoding and undercoding are two coding mistakes that can have damaging results on the medical office. Medical coding is not just about receiving reimbursements for services provided. Coding claims accurately lets the insurance payer know the illness or injury of the patient and the method of treatment. Overcoding is Fraud: Overcoding leads to insurance companies making much higher…
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Challenges with Pending AR and Billing Challenges?

According to a research conducted by the Medical Group Management Association, better performing practices generate more revenue, create operational efficiency, ensure provider productivity and collect receivables quickly compared to their peers. It is important to review the AR on a regular basis to ensure the practice is collecting payment for…
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E/M Coding Evaluation & Medicare Recoupment

Practices that bill Medicare incorrectly create newsworthy events. If you don’t want to see your practice on the front page for the wrong reasons, you’ll need to check your E/M coding conventions to be sure you aren’t miscoding E/M services. The lowdown: In 2014 Medicare Fee-for-Service improper payment rate was 12.7 percent.…
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